Beyond big upsets Tuesday in winning the Danbury and Derby mayoral races, Democrats performed fairly well elsewhere and posted significant victories in the Farmington Valley and along the shoreline. Democrats flipped control of numerous city and town councils, including those in New Britain, Wethersfield, Cheshire and Norwich, and ousted Republican mayors in Newington and Brookfield. They also .
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Gov. Ned Lamont and other state officials abruptly left a back-to-school roundtable on Wednesday after anti-mask protesters disrupted the speakers, cutting
Electoral College affirms: Biden is the president-elect.
Presidential Elector William Smith, 94, of Hartford, casts his ballot for Joe Biden in the Connecticut Senate.
Connecticut cast its seven Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, normally a perfunctory postscript to a presidential election. The state’s GOP chairman was ready to move on, even if President Donald J. Trump was not.
“This is the process that has played out,” said J.R. Romano, chair of the state Republican Party. Romano accepted the result but refused to say if Trump should, too. “All that matters procedurally is that the Electoral College voted today. That’s all that really matters.”